Continuing Education Requirements by State

CE requirements for RNs, LPNs, and APRNs. Most states require 20–40 hours every 2 years with mandatory topics like infection control and ethics.

CPE requirements for Certified Public Accountants. Typically 80–120 hours per cycle with mandatory ethics and technical subject hours.

CE requirements for sales agents and brokers. State requirements range from 14 to 45 hours with legal updates and ethics courses.

PDH (professional development hours) requirements for licensed PEs. Most states require 15–30 PDH per renewal with mandatory ethics or laws-and-rules hours; a few, like California, require none.

Continuing competence requirements for licensed PTs and PTAs, measured in contact hours or CCUs. Each state board sets its own rules — roughly 20–40 contact hours every 1–3 years, with mandatory jurisprudence or ethics in many states and no requirement in a few.

PDH (professional development hours) requirements for licensed professional land surveyors. Most states — usually through the same board that licenses engineers — require 15–30 PDH per renewal, often with mandatory ethics or state boundary-law hours, while a few require none.

Continuing education requirements for licensed architects, measured in HSW (health, safety & welfare) hours or learning units. State rules range from 12 to 24 HSW hours per renewal — sometimes with mandatory accessibility, building-code, or disaster-resilient design topics — to no requirement at all.